but the thing is this oliver stone wrote it is a piece of satire but nobody got it just the opposite all over stone was trying to send up the excesses of the reagan era michael douglas his portrayal helped inspire a whole generation of slicked back hair doos in double breasted seats adopting the greed is good ethos and pursuing the american dream as it had come to be defined now delivers obscene wealth for a very few while raining poverty and misery down on many and serving as a homicidal force for others because people do in fact die for lack of access to health care in the richest country in the world that's the us of a human consumption is in fact accelerating the instruction of our planet people do in fact die in wars waged based on lies that profit the precious view over five million children globally each year do not reach their fifth birthday because they die of starvation all of this is not because the system that puts man on the moon or can

squeeze an entire library onto a computer chip the size of a thumbnail has failed to find a way to solve these problems rather our system without apology places corporate greed. and greed take back the popular phrase is not good now the question many within the occupy movement are trying to solve is this one what would world look like that had a culture and an economic system that places human need above corporate greed and how do we bring that world into being who cares what it is call call it socialism call it real democracy now call it chunky monkey cherry garcia the world needs to change radically needs to change dramatically and it needs to change fast this documentary is an invitation for you to participate in that positive change frankly because we need to yes.

it's console bad well it's a very well to buy but makes it a problem if you just saw all the money in one place to. get that so i got you is going to money is going to get for people that have the will. be fifty four million you have six you want to hear. the wealth of three percent of american families you know one percent of the wealth of ninety five percent of americans so now that we've identified the problem broadly speaking what do you think the solution is raise your hand if you think the way our representative democracy currently functions bought and sold as it is by wall street and super pacs offers a bright ray of hope forward for anyone to the very same power anyone politicians

know if they spout spend their competitor they're going to when they win the election ninety four percent of the time. so. they have no fear of the american people they fear the people who are going to fund their campaigns right so that means that you know me and just about everyone we know has very little say over who represents us and little to no influence over them once they get into office for a process is rigged to throw an enormous amount of money behind candidates in the two major parties and consequently choosing the lesser of two evils is something americans have done with a fatalistic shrug of the shoulders for far too long to say the u.s. government currently functions of foreign by the people would be a funny joke if the joke were not on you mean almost everyone we know imagine a world in which your single voice carried as much weight as the c.e.o. of goldman sachs and you're starting to imagine the world that the occupy movement is trying to bring into being you know always going to greet us not about you never . we will be look at duke ellington just. got the

only thing worse than the duke is not the conductor he just looks good so much but does that look. just yes that's democracy in action at the level experiencing the horizontal community and culture and organization. so radicalized him for two point continues to be surrounded by because it draws such a stark contrast up against what they're fighting and actually in their minds clarifies what they're up against more than somebody. more than it would be clarified if somebody got up and tried to clarify it for thanks to occupy wall street there's a lot of new ways of organizing which is not just calling people to participate in something you came up with but giving people the opportunity to create themselves and to be part of the green original brainstorming about what to do so that they

feel empowered in this movement it's also i think. finally put the kybosh on let's organize a rally on a saturday in washington d.c. when everything is closed and people come from around the country and spend a lot of money to walk around in a circle and come home to see. what . people. think it was by a certain degree much. i guess what you say. no longer represents the people the people organizing the term.

thank you. thank. you thank you.

thank you. for. i. five thirty in the morning is a comedy on most mornings early in the occupy wall street movement there would only be about fifty maybe two hundred or so occupying the space but it's five thirty in the morning on the morning of october fourteenth two thousand and eleven several thousand people were gathered there wide awake why because mayor mike bloomberg had declared that his own personal army his words the n.y.p.d. constituting the seventh largest army in the world would have dict occupy wall street and these thousands were there not just in solidarity they were there are

more than ideas and cardboard signs and an urgency to protect me and many of them were prepared to go to jail trying to fill the space i had already gone to jail once since all of this started as an organizer with the october two thousand and eleven coalition i had been in washington d.c. in the early days of the movement and you can see me here after suggesting repeatedly i admit inside the hart senate office building that we find other uses for the money we lavish on our homicidal bull geo political china shop and the foreign policy i was given to do not pass go go directly to jail card and in a few days i would be arrested again this time for protesting corporate personhood on the steps of the supreme court. and it would occupy movement all around the world because we love. working people and. that jane joined us from the grave that we have a pathetic. occupy d.c. occupy wall street occupy the supreme court not everywhere in my willingness to go

to jail for the movement though i was hardly unique and with the thousands that were in zuccotti on the morning of october fourteenth it seemed that you're about to eclipse the previous one day record total of seven hundred protesters arrested on the brooklyn bridge what was it that brought all of those people to music caught in that this. not be a revolution in the traditional sense but this is a revolution in the life of our people revolution and it's not going to be stuff like holy spirit games in congress really really is it everything looks like a clean the you deliberately kill. in the first six months of the movement about seven thousand people have been arrested in occupy related protests for things while the fox. and why in the predawn hours on that friday in october were so many prepared to go to jail i know i live my

eyes when we are supposed to get cleaned out of the park we swept the show up park and then we took brooms and we took them to the to wall street to co-create up wall street i think most of the problems but the filth is in the offices there so we can get to it but we did a little victory lap and the police brutalized the such people like you know they do that they have done that for trying to twenty five years in this country during that year's nonviolent confrontations with the police whether they be in asserting one's first amendment rights to assemble or uncommitted spontaneous marches in the streets can be incredibly empowering movement building experience an antidote to the years of disempowering and williams free speech zones when it comes to be the new and yet civil resistance is but one part one tactic of the movement if you only saw the early stages of the occupy movement through the lens of the mainstream

media you might think the movement was soley about clashes with the police. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so small and you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize that everything is ok. i'm tom harpur welcome to the big picture. balls fifteen goats to cal's. forty kilograms of rice one thousand flatbreads. but why is the bride in a bad mood. to tell the group.

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there is no honor in my mom my father everybody who has served in iraq afghanistan was a look. back. to my mother that i can now back. from . new york new york city. you know because no no no no. i. i i i i. i guess delayed. ok let's just be honest here for a moment for some people this is and justifiably so a battle about a police state since one nine hundred eighty the number of people in prison per

capita in the united states has more than tripled we now in prison a greater percentage of our population than any other country in the world in fact the united states is only five percent of the world population has twenty five percent of the world's prison population in the u.s. one in every one hundred six white males aged eighteen or over is incarcerated for hispanic males that number is one in thirty six and one in fifteen black males over eighteen is currently in jail between one thousand nine hundred seven and two thousand and seven state spending on incarceration related expenses increased one hundred twenty seven percent of all spending on higher education during that same period rose a mere twenty percent is it that much more profitable jail or population than it is to educated. i mean that's a great means and then their head lock arms and you know i take me to jail and you

got to continue to do this i read about it tell you you know watch you continue to put my body and mind that my moms are anybody else that looks like me and i read i think it should be a scary thing not just for those who own you know people color minority can but all of us know that we have to live in a society like that. ok so depending on your geographic location your everyday reality may reflect the police state we live in two larger or smaller degrees but at least you have your health right at least you have your home. already made every job very issues like that which are so pfizer recreational mother. of every two thousand one are little am profiting no matter what you're. going to rebuy action taking place right now. by cameroon right. thank you you're welcome pal sometimes demanding change on a large scale has to start with small groups of individuals saying enough is enough

like this group of individuals and western massachusetts who gathered in an attempt to stop the bank of america from executing yet another foreclosure auction. the fact is it's a five five by. a lack of government regulations gave banks enough rope to operate like cowboys in the wild west and they responded by lassoing homeowners with these predatory lending practices when the housing bubble burst bank of america got bailed out and those with underwater mortgages were sold out so that c.e.o.'s like brian moynihan could collect the year end bonus of over nine million dollars a week lou with that they have enough money to pay for a reasonable war gauge at today's values so this is something that all of can stand behind we believe that when folks have you know a home that they should be able to stay in that home and it's not like they're not willing to pay this is the weirdest movement i've ever worked in this way and the foreclosure movement because we are begging people to take money and they won't take it of course occupy hardly invented foreclosure defenses people like grace and

high foreclosure organizations have been toiling away at this for years but when occupy wall street went to east new york in december to march occupy are more and more people around the country started to realize that there was another way to back off. was. back. there thank you god. i thank you and sometimes demanding change in a large scale starts because even smaller groups dr margaret flowers is among the nation's leading advocates for true health care reform health care reform that would eliminate the for profit insurance companies and provide medicare for all individuals in the united states a former pediatrician and congressional fellow dr flowers worked within the system for years after the farmhouse i was traveling around the country and people kept saying well how are we going to get single payer i was speaking around you know various states and and i it's totally kind of came together like oh well unless you

know as a as a movement even though we're in the majority of the population wants a single payer system we're not going to be strong enough as a single issue. kind of movement to have that kind of political power and health care is really part of a broader social economic justice movement anyway and so we really need to come together bring our strengths together combine our strengths to have the power and so i know this in my talks i was starting to shift more into you know calling for a broader movement as a core organizer of the october two thousand and eleven coalition that occupied freedom plaza in washington d.c. dr flowers thought fit to attend as an uninvited guest a wall street comes to washington health care conference i crashed the party with her i doubt they would let my big camera and so i had to shoot the video this impromptu meeting with the real death panels on myself was to get how did how we did it and that i don't have

a good i didn't i acceptable. practice because they can provide i was. was out i was. fine there was no cannot be you are right. they want to. get. sally. but honestly and join protesters picketing outside where adair a scarlet shared her story of why health care was literally a life and death issue i came here because. for my father martin i was so committed suicide is shot so it had every state. but because her life partner did have

somebody to pay for health care to take care of it and didn't want to ask because my sister and myself were fifty four years old this is the most considerate suicide that i ever heard of and he had to put sticky notes on everything he had borrowed from everybody saying you know we turned this post this person and cetera et cetera everything that could possibly be good you know not what one might but for sharon stone said please request by far my daughter's home i have to find. her body that it was he says i'm sure you understand this is something i have a good hold you know without but simply not i'm here that's why i'm here at this forum and i've heard people like every person that lives for lack of access to health care something's father or son or daughter thank you take a stand up not only for my father but for all those like. you have.

it is. in a. way i. thought ok you think even though my mortgage is underwater and my health care costs are going through this here is america i'll just pull myself up by the bootstraps and get to work nose to the grindstone will solve all ills but be careful out there if you haven't noticed there is a war on workers well underway between one thousand nine hundred and two thousand and eight the average income of the bottom ninety percent remained effectively unchanged at thirty one thousand dollars per year in that same time span the average income of the top one percent went from four hundred thousand dollars to over one point one million dollars per year so much for trickle down economics in one thousand nine hundred a c.e.o. made forty two times that of an average employee by two thousand and ten to see

those were earning three hundred forty three times workers median wage and while the rich got richer they were paying less and less taxes in one nine hundred forty five millionaires get a tax rate of sixty six percent in two thousand and ten millionaires effective tax rate was thirty two percent or more gratian things look even better bank of america holds over two point two trillion in assets and pays less in taxes than the average american household in two thousand and ten g.e. reported five point two billion dollars in profit and was awarded a tax refund three point two billion dollars citi group has not paid taxes in the last four years and yet in the wake of the financial crisis they are deemed too big to fail and received four hundred seventy six billion dollars in taxpayer bailout money and goldman sachs has spent twenty two million dollars in campaign contributions and twenty one million dollars in lobbying. efforts in the past

decade and in two thousand and eight paid taxes at a rate. waiting for a. one person. was. thank you thank you thank you. the to me the time that was immaculate to me like you. think i. thank the gods i. wasn't yes thank you but one could send out if you want but the debate is going better than twenty five years nothing nothing but repeat we've been working people . believe me. just a little bit that we put up with to have been done at night when the election

i was the big thing would be. to say thank you thank ye thank you thank you i was a thousand thank you thousand two thousand i was thousand. was. thank you. well.

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thanks to some a. dog days are. the pride days a. sitcom. of the. sun sea it's so true. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else and you hear or see some other part of it and realize everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom harvey welcome to the big picture.